KOLKATA: India's top public healthcare establishment, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, is in talks with the Ohio State University  to set up the country's first comprehensive regenerative medicine centre that will open up avenues in research and development and introduce revolutionary techniques.

Regenerative medicine, a broad subject, deals with the "process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage or congenital defects".

Proposed to be established on a small scale, initially on the ninth floor of the newly-inaugurated Convergence Block at AIIMS, the proposed hub will come up in partnership with the American public research varsity's Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapies (CRMCBT), known for its pioneering efforts in the field.

CRMCBT director Chandan Sen said the expertise and advisory will be provided by OSU, which ranks second in the US on industry-sponsored research among public schools.

"This venture will introduce a new discipline of medicine to India's premier seat of academic medicine and CRMCBT will provide expertise and advisory. There is a substantial need for regenerative medicine in India," Sen told IANS in an email interaction.

Sen is a tenured professor of surgery and executive director of the varsity's Comprehensive Wound Center.
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